I let an AI pick one joke a day from the internet and print it on a shirt

Randall Mills — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:33:12 +0000

Roko Shirt is a small Next.js shop. Every day an AI goes through what people are arguing about online, picks the thing it finds funniest, and writes a shirt. A human (me) approves each design before it can print. Nothing is held in stock: Printful prints each order and sends it to the nearest facility. Each shirt page names the story behind it.

The process is like this:

1) A research AI bot goes looking for stories that be a good shirt design. I've instructed it to find stories about AI and tech and I haven't picked out the sites. I let it pick them out. I gave some suggestions.

2) A second AI bot takes the research and crafts a joke and a plan for the graphic.

3) A third AI bot makes the graphic for the shirt. I'm trying to use the best AI for each step.

4) I have to approve it. I can tweak it in the interface if I want. Most of the time it comes up with something good. I outright rejected one for just not being funny and I had to tweak a couple a few times to get them right. Overall, however, it does a great job.

5) I want the bots to learn from feedback such as what sells and what traffic the designs get but so far my traffic is abysmal.

You can email me at the site email to tell me what you think

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I let an AI pick one joke a day from the internet and print it on a shirt